Practice:

• Co-Chair, Business Litigation
• Bankruptcy
• Executive Advocacy
• Franchise
• International Practice
• Labor, Employment & Employee Benefits

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Experience:

Prior to joining Burns & Levinson LLP in January 2006, Mr. Green was a Partner with the firm Perkins Smith & Cohen LLP.

Mr. Green has successfully litigated cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts in the areas of antitrust, bankruptcy and creditors rights, business litigation and commercial litigation among others. He represents the litigation needs in New England of large national companies, as well as closely held corporations and individuals. His clients include AT&T, Azoff Music Management, Dari-Farms Ice Cream, Erdman Anthony, Expedia.com, Hewlett-Packard, Illinois Tool Works, Lady Grace Stores, Lindenmeyr Munroe, Lucent Technologies, Michell USA, Minolta Business Systems, Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. and Sir Speedy Printing Centers. He has developed specialized expertise in cases involving the telecommunications, equipment leasing, franchising, commercial printing and distribution industries.

Mr. Green has represented executive employees in employment termination and discrimination cases. In 2003, he won a jury verdict of $2.2 million, plus interest and attorneys’ fees, on behalf of a female executive employee who was terminated following complaints of sexual harassment. The damages included the second highest punitive award in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in an employment retaliation case.

Memberships:

• American Bar Association
• Boston Bar Association
• Massachusetts Bar Association

Additional Information:

• President, American Jewish Society for Service, a non-profit organization providing community service opportunities for teens and serving impoverished communities throughout America.
• Mr. Green was invited by the Massachusetts Attorney General to serve as a training leader for trial practice seminars for assistant attorneys general.
• Mr. Green's book, Managing Partner 101 (2d Ed.); A Leadership Guide for Building the Successful Law Firm has been published by the American Bar Association.
• Mr. Green has lectured before business and bar groups in the areas of business litigation and creditors rights.
• While earning his Juris Doctor at New York University, Mr. Green was a Root-Tilden Scholar.

Education:

• J.D., New York University
• Undergraduate, cum laude, Wesleyan University

Awards:

• Mr. Green has long held a Martindale Hubbell rating of AV, the highest rating.
• Massachusetts Super Lawyer in 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004. The selection of attorneys is based on a poll and internal research done by Law & Politics Magazine and reviewed by an independent blue ribbon panel of their peers. Listed attorneys and finalists consist of the top 5% of attorneys in Massachusetts. The listing appeared in the November issue of Boston Magazine and in New England Super Lawyers Magazine.

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